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Sapphire

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Description
Locality: 
Liha River, Mambasa, North Kivu, DR Congo
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.6 × 0.6 × 0.5 cm
Weight: 
0.40gr
Description

Attention to this very uncommon piece of crystallized sapphire from DR Congo. It is terminated all around, with some erosions due to fluvial transport. It has a net short prismatic hexagonal development, attractive stepped faces and gorgeous navy blue colour. Sapphire from DR Congo is scarcely represented in collections.

Ex René Virlet specimen, a Belgian colonist in Congo who travel back definitively to Belgium in 1968, with his handwritten label.

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sapphire

Variety Of: 

Corundum

Formula: 
Al2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Hardness: 
9.0
Formula: 
Al2O3
Hardness: 
0.0

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Belgium (Tracked)
7
NL, DE, FR, LU (Tracked)
10
EUROPE 1 . or 2 (Tracked)
11.12
CANADA (Tracked)
14
USA (NOT Tracked) . or USA (Tracked)
14
REST (Tracked)
14

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